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Baker, Benjamin W – Baker, George Melville

Baker, Benjamin W

soldier, minister, college president, was born Nov. 25, 1841, in Coles county, Ill. He has attained prominence as an eloquent methodist minister and as president of Chaddock college, Quincy, Ill. He served as a soldier for three years in the civil war.

Baker, Bernard N

businessman, was born May 11, 1854, in Baltimore, Md.

He is president of the firm of Baker, Whiteley & Co.; and is also the president of the Baltimore Storage and Lighterage company, which has a capital of $1,500,000 and which owns and controls the Atlantic Transport line. was

Baker, Conrad

statesman. He was governor of Indiana from 1867 to 1869.

Baker, Daniel

soldier, was born about 1775. He was brevetted major for gallantry in the disastrous affair at Brownstown, Mich., known as Van Horne's defeat. After the war of 1812 he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the sixth infantry, and commanded that regiment at the battle of the Bad Axe river, in the Black Hawk war, in 1832. He died Oct. 10, 1836, in Detroit, Mich.

Baker, Dorsey Synge

physician, banker, was born Oct. 28, 1823, in Centerville, Ill. In 1871 he took steps to organize a railroad company to build a line from Walla Walla to Wallula. This road, the first in the territory, was built entirely from his own means and was finished in 1873. His principal properties were The Baker and Boyer bank in Walla Walla; and The Walla Walla and Columbia River Railroad.

Baker, Enos Pomeroy

clergyman, college president, was born Dec. 20, 1856, in West Bloomfield, N. Y. He graduated from Lake Forest university as valedictorian in 1882, and in 1886 from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, now the McCormick Theological seminary, of Chicago. He had charge of several churches, and is now president of the Presbyterian College of the Southwest, of Del Norte, Colo.

Baker, Ezra

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1815 to 1817.

Baker, Frank R

legislator and lawyer, was born Nov. 11, 1861, in Bentonsport, Iowa. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Washington state legislature, and has since attained prominence as an orator and statesman.

Baker, Frederick A

was born June 14, 1846, in Holly, Mich. He commenced the study of the law in 1865, was admitted to the bar in 1867, and has been in active practice ever since. In 1877 he served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature.

Baker, George Augustus

lawyer, author, was born in 1821, in New York City. He was a successful lawyer of New York and the author of Point Lace and Diamonds, a collection of sparkling society verse; The Bad Habits of Good Society; Mrs. Hephaestus and Other Short Stories; and West Point: a Comedy. He died April 2, 1880, in New York City.

Baker, George Hall

librarian, was born April 23, 1850, in Ashfield, Mass.

In 1883 he joined the staff of Columbia college library as assistant librarian. During 1885-89 he was lecturer in the school of political science in Columbia college on the bibliography of history and political science.

Baker, George Melville

author,' was born in 1832, in Maine. He was the author and compiler of Amateur Dramas; the Social Stage; and works of like character. He died in 1890.